A Low-Noise High-Gain Broadband Transformer-Based Inverter-Based Transimpedance Amplifier
In this paper, a transformer-based bandwidth (BW) extension technique is employed to improve the BW, noise, and silicon area of inverter-based transimpedance amplifiers (TIAs) even when they use inductive peaking. A TIA based on the proposed technique, designed and laid out in a 16-nm FinFET process, demonstrates a 36% increased in BW, a 19% reduction in input-referred noise, and a 57% reduction in silicon area compared to the conventional TIA with inductive peaking. In the proposed TIA architecture, inclusion of a transformer in the forward path compensates partially for the parasitic capacitances of the inverter and relaxes the transimpedance limit of the conventional TIA. The proposed technique also lowers the input-referred current noise spectrum of the TIA. Post-layout in companion with electromagnetic (EM) simulations and statistical analysis are employed to verify the effectiveness of the proposed architecture. Simulation results show that the TIA achieves a transimpedance gain of 58 dB
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